Iranian thinker
Meysam Badamchi
Meysam BadamchiPolitical Philosophy and Political TheoryIranian
Life and Thought
Meysam Badamchi is an Iranian political philosopher, researcher, and writer working in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, political liberalism, post-Islamist theory, and the relationship between Iranian intellectualism and modern political thought. He is known for his English book "Post-Islamist Political Theory" and his translation of Will Kymlicka's "Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction."
Meysam Badamchi is an Iranian researcher of political philosophy. He completed his undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Tehran and his master's degree in philosophy of science at Sharif University of Technology, before earning his PhD in political philosophy from the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli in Rome. His dissertation focused on political liberalism in Muslim-majority societies.
Badamchi's main research areas include contemporary political philosophy, theories of justice, political liberalism, multiculturalism, minority rights, Islamism and post-Islamism, and the relationship between Iranian intellectuals and the liberal tradition. In his writings, he has engaged with thinkers such as John Rawls, Will Kymlicka, Abdolkarim Soroush, Mohsen Kadivar, Mehdi Haeri Yazdi, and other contemporary religious and political intellectuals.
His most important work is the book "Post-Islamist Political Theory: Iranian Intellectuals and Political Liberalism in Dialogue," published by Springer in 2017. This book establishes a dialogue between liberal political philosophy and the thought of Iranian intellectuals on religion, freedom, justice, and a new political order. A Persian translation of this work is also available under the title "Post-Islamist Political Philosophy: A Dialogue between John Rawls and Iranian Intellectuals."
Badamchi has also co-translated Will Kymlicka's "Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Introduction" into Persian with Mohammad Mobasheri; an important work for introducing Persian speakers to theories of justice, liberalism, communitarianism, multiculturalism, feminism, and minority rights. His significance for the Sedanet audience lies precisely in this connection between academic political philosophy and the intellectual issues of the contemporary Iranian-Islamic world.
